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>> INTERVIEWER: Now, you mentioned when you were in the D-Day assault that you'd been at Pegasus Bridge.
Well we jumped over something there, because obviously
the other really famous action in that particular area is the assault on the Merville Battery
which the Airborne had taken part in. But I believe that you were involved in...
You've got so many stories to tell that you forgot about Merville Battery! [laughs]
>> FRED WALKER: Yeah, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah.
That was the next day, the 7th of...what's-her-name. [7 June 1944]
Only 4 and 5 Troop under the orders of, um, "Windy" Gale, we used to call him. [Major-General Richard Gale]
He was the guv'nor of the Airborne...well he was the guv'nor of that area. And um...
Er, that was a failure. Yeah. We had no plan or whatsoever.
Just go out in front, section after section like that.
And who got us out of trouble once again?
Dear Peter Young. Else I'd still be there.
>> INTERVIEWER: And how did he do that?
>> FRED WALKER: Well, he told us to get out.
And we had to go across a minefield.
And we set all the bloody mines off -
little S-mines, they're like a can of beans,
only about the size of that.
They go about 4ft high and they're full of ball bearings. And they explode.
We had quite a few casualties with them.